[MBZ] Digest coming up short

2008-04-05 Thread Curt Raymond
Hey Kaleb, Is something going funny with the digest version of the list? I'm seeing LOTS of messages get replied to where I haven't seen the original message come through at all... On an interesting side note, when I post to the Linux list it ALWAYS hits my spam filter... Odd. -Curt

Re: [MBZ] No ethanol in Germany

2008-04-05 Thread Curt Raymond
People here complain bitterly about it but they complained just as bitterly about MTBE. Interestingly you don't hear them complaining about MTBE now, I'm about the only one around that reminds them of getting a headache after 10 minutes at the gas station... MBTE is bad [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll t

Re: [MBZ] ADMIN, Politics on the list

2008-04-05 Thread Curt Raymond
Yale. Funny my wife and I were talking about this just this morning. She said "I can't believe somebody as dumb as him could get through Yale." I replied with "Well he did have a 1.5GPA..." Yep, our president was a D+ student. As I remember John Kerry was a C- or something around it.. Just di

Re: [MBZ] Gasser Eye-talian Tune-ups

2008-04-05 Thread Curt Raymond
My late great uncle Reg had an '88 GMC 1500 pickup that pretty much only ever got driven around town. Every trip I made to see him he'd have me "blow the carbon out of it" we'd go find some big hills and bomb up them with the pedal to the floor and the 350ci v8 screaming. He'd smile and hold on

Re: [MBZ] Manual tranny swaps

2008-04-05 Thread Jim Cathey
> had to fabricate (sounds better than cut) a hole for the > line to the slave. Not hard to do but just a tad sad to > cut into my Benz, even if it was just a 25mm hole. When I did it the manny's clutch pipe obviously went through the same hole that the slushbox's electrical cable used to use. Tha

Re: [MBZ] Bad idea

2008-04-05 Thread Jim Cathey
> dangerous with one of the newer can bus > cars because of the strong possibility of electronic damage due to > voltage > spikes. A lot of the danger can be mitigated by making sure the donor car is OFF when you hit the patient's starter. That and, of course, making sure you use proper cabling

Re: [MBZ] Bad idea

2008-04-05 Thread Hendrik & Fay
Guess that's the last time you'll get the fancy car. Far as jump starting 'new' cars with fancy electronics, far as I know it is still doable but the penalties for stuffing it up are har$her. There should be a section in the operators manual about this but *always* connect the positive ends first

Re: [MBZ] Bad idea

2008-04-05 Thread Kevin Kraly
dangerous with one of the newer can bus cars because of the strong possibility of electronic damage due to voltage spikes. Yeah, my heart skipped a beat on that one too. This is the very reason that the '07 Dodge Ram wasn't used to jump the '95 Rodeo who's batttery had gone dead. The 300sD wa

Re: [MBZ] No ethanol in Germany

2008-04-05 Thread Hendrik & Fay
The only experience I had with it was a couple of years ago when a servo sold some E10 and touted it as premium 95 octane. As my 230E has a taste for 95 I decided to chuck some in, ran like a dog and was still feeling ill a couple of tankfuls of other fuel later. Stayed clear of that stuff sinc

Re: [MBZ] Manual tranny swaps [was: SDL won't move]

2008-04-05 Thread Hendrik & Fay
Yeah mine has the hole for the hose from the brake fluid reservoir to the clutch master cylinder but had to fabricate (sounds better than cut) a hole for the line to the slave. Not hard to do but just a tad sad to cut into my Benz, even if it was just a 25mm hole. Now I have to work out the elec

Re: [MBZ] Climate control unit 300SDL

2008-04-05 Thread Luther
Send your old PBU to me and I'll rebuild it instead of throwing it away. I have a handful of scrap ones and can swap in a new switch if that's the issue. Luther On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:11:51 -0600, 87 300SDL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello; >I have a 87 300SDL and the PBU to select the f

Re: [MBZ] SDL won't move

2008-04-05 Thread Luther
Will you give me a 2 year unlimited mileage warranty? :D Luther On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:01:22 -0600, Kaleb C. Striplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > buy a used one > > Luther wrote: >> So, I just got off the phone with our MBCA Tech advisor and the diagnosis is >> tranny rebuild time. It's a bad

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